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It’s true that the Founding Fathers were, for the most part, prosperous burghers who weighted the system toward the propertied classes. The Electoral College, for example, while protecting the prerogatives of smaller states, also had the effect of placing a cordon sanitaire between the more numerous uneducated, landless mob and their actual self-rule. The gap between rich and poor, however, was much narrower in those days. It’s questionable whether a few gents in brocade waistcoats and powdered wigs could have envisioned a tiny cohort of ultra-wealthy who possessed the economic power to purchase the entire federal government. The wealth disparity we live...

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